Hey guys! It has been a long time since I have had some quality one on one time with you, just to chat, and since I honestly have not finished any books in the last two weeks (and I think I might have given up on the Lord of the Rings), right now is the perfect time for a post like this. A post where anything can, and anything will, happen.

There is not much new with me, although the blurb about me on the 'About' page is getting more and more accurate by the day - I am very much broke, and my (slight) book obsession isn't really helping in that department. Because of this, I put myself on a bit of a book buying ban - and now the list of books that I want to read is growing exponentially. It seems as though all of the books that seem interesting and that I want to read get released in the spring. I don't know if that is on purpose by publishers or if things just work out that way.

My school library has a fantastically large library book selection, but I have already read all of the books that interest me. All of this combined was leaving me with no books to read, except for rereads. But then last Sunday I went to church, and there was this announcement that they had a ton of books that they wanted to get rid of. After the service I practically ran to the table that was set up with the books they were getting rid of, and proceeded to get sixteen books. I might have a book hoarding problem; I might just be alright with that.

I don't know though. Overall my reading has been a little thrown off recently - I have only read just over thirty pages in the last week. What am I supposed do, though? I will just have to sit it out and hope that I'll get back on track soon. What do you all do to get out of a reading slump - it would be cool to know, so please feel free to leave a comment about it!

On one last note, I am currently in an Art class at my school, and we had to take this thing called scraffito paper and put a design of our creation onto the paper - and this is what I made:

Hey everybody! Happy Easter! I'm just going to skip straight to the review today, my capacity for small talk is completely gone. Sorry. Unless, of course, you don't like my babbling, in which case, yay for you (also, why are you even here?).So this is sort of a first for my reviews, I'm fairly sure. I'm going to review a book that I didn't finish. As a rule, I generally avoid doing that, because what if the rest of the book turned out to be okay, right? First, here's Goodreads' synopsis (because I can't really make up one for it):

A princess must find her place in a reborn world.

She flees on her wedding day.

She steals ancient documents from the Chancellor's secret collection.

She is pursued by bounty hunters sent by her own father.

She is Princess Lia, seventeen, First Daughter of the House of Morrighan.

The Kingdom of Morrighan is steeped in tradition and the stories of a bygone world, but some traditions Lia can't abide. Like having to marry someone she's never met to secure a political alliance.

Fed up and ready for a new life, Lia flees to a distant village on the morning of her wedding. She settles in among the common folk, intrigued when two mysterious and handsome strangers arrive—and unaware that one is the jilted prince and the other an assassin sent to kill her. Deceptions swirl and Lia finds herself on the brink of unlocking perilous secrets—secrets that may unravel her world—even as she feels herself falling in love.

Thanks to Netgalley for a free digital copy of this book. As always, this does not affect my opinion in any way. I am sorry that so many of my reviews lately have been Netgalley reviews - I'm sure it doesn't matter too much to you, but hey, I'm Canadian, and other than hockey, bathing in maple syrup, and saying "Eh" every second sentence, apologizing is what we do best. A year ago, my sister and I signed up for Netgalley, which offers free copies of books from their publishers in exchange for honest reviews, and a month ago, Elizabeth and I started requesting books. But we (mostly me) went on a book-requesting frenzy, expecting for a lot of the requests to be turned down. Apparently we (alright, I) were wrong. A lot of books were denied, but quite a few were approved as well, leaving me with a lot of books to review. I have learned my lesson though, and from now on will request with moderation.

But enough of where I got the book, lets talk about the book itself. This book was good, but not great. I like the cover a lot, but that really doesn't have too much to do with anything. But you must admit that the cover is pretty neat. The content between the cover pages is pretty good too. I especially liked the story-line as well, which was unique in the right sense.

Hey everyone! You will never, ever, ever guess my news. You won't. Try. Go 'head, do it, see if you can guess, but you won't be right. I have been given the most amazing opportunity. I (for lack of a better word) won a scholarship to go and spend the next year of high school studying in GERMANY!!! I apologize for the excessive exclamation points, but I am just so happy! How is this going to affect you guys, you might ask? Well, Jason and I haven't figured out all of the details just yet, but what we're looking at is me prewriting a bunch of reviews. Basically, I'll write a review of every book I read, instead of picking just one of them every two weeks, and Jason will be able to pick from those and post them. We're also looking at getting some of our friends to guest post. I will probably send a post about Germany back a few times. That way, we can still keep up the blog like we want to, but I don't have to keep switching back to English (which would not necessarily - does anyone else have problems with that word? I have just started to admit defeat, allow myself to butcher the spelling, and then let Google dictionary correct it for me. I have just had to realize that that will be the one word I cannot spell. - be good for my German language skills), and try to figure out how to get my hands on English books without having to spend a fortune. There will be a more concrete plan at some point in the not too distant future. On a quite different note, if anyone heard this loud "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" a few hours ago, that was just me, finding out that they changed the costumes for the Cast Members at the Disney EPCOT World Showcase Canadian Pavilion, for the first time since it opened in the '70s, and they are absolutely awful. It's on my list of Things To Do Someday to work there as a part of their Cultural Representative Program, so I was naturally upset. Oh wait, you want me to actually get to the book review? Well I guess if you want me to...

I had no clue what to expect going into this book. I did not look at any reviews, I just read the book description and thought, "Hey, why not?" And why not indeed - the description reminded me of Narnia mixed with a private school - both of which, individually, are usually great books. (Go Clive! Go.. writers of private school books!) It also helps that my sister (the one and only Elizabeth) is a humongous Narnia fan, and after living with someone who raves positively about someone or something, it is hard for that obsession not to rub off (just a little bit). I started this book without expectations, and finished it pleasantly surprised.

This book was provided to me for free through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.Hey everyone! I'm very excited because this is the first time I've ever done a review for a book from NetGalley! We've had the account for a while, but we kept putting off writing up a profile and requesting books for some reason. But now we've done it, and it's really cool, and, I might add, I am extremely happy that we did get around to it, or I might never have gotten to read this book!Before I jump into the book review, I just wanted to relate this Weird Dad Quote. That's a thing now. So, awhile ago, my family was just sitting in our living room, talking about farts (that's normal right? All families must do this, it's not just mine?) and then, at the end of the conversation, my Dad said (and I quote) "It's like the whole world is going to flatulence!". I'm not kidding you. I wrote this down, so you can rest assured that that is exactly what he said.

I will just be straight out honest and say that at first, I did not like this book. It was a Holocaust story, and I guess that I expected a little more quality in the writing than I was able to find. When I got this book, I had expected for it to be a little bit harsher, I guess, but it wasn't. I now realize that the intended audience was for 'children aged twelve and up', and that with it being aimed at younger people, I can't expect the story to be as rough and eye-opening as some of the other Holocaust books I have read - because those would seriously freak them out. Some of them freaked me out, admittedly, and what responsible person would let a young child read a book that scared them? So I do understand why it was written the way it was, and I do this that I might have enjoyed this story perhaps a little bit more had I realized earlier that it was meant for those who are twelve years old.

Once I had gotten past that, I found that the storyline was actually pretty good, with yet another different perspective on that tragic period in history.

Hello, everybody! I hope you had a great week, and that your Valentines Day was good (no matter if you had company or if you were a party of one).

As you may have picked up from my title for this post, I have a small confession to make: I did not finish any books over the last two weeks. In fact, I have only read about a hundred and fifty pages. Which is somewhat unusual for me, I think. If you are wondering precisely what book, it is the first Lord of the Rings book, The Fellowship of the Ring, by J. R. R. Tolkien. I was not sure if I was going to like these books or not, although I was definitely excited to read them - and so far, I am enjoying them.

I don't know if I will write a review of this book once I have finished it or not, just because it seems to me to be a difficult book for reviewing. As of where I am at though, if you are considering reading the first Lord of the Rings book, my advice is to just do it - if you aren't liking it that much just put it down, there is no damage done.

I will also admit that I have a few friends who have read the series before, and it took them somewhere between a month to a month and a half to read the first book - so, of course, I had always thought to myself, "If and when I read that book I will definitely read it in two weeks." Well, my time frame is up, and from my page count I am nowhere near finished. I actually think I might take more time than my friends did to read it, but that is alright, because I am enjoying it.

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Jason and Elizabeth are brother and sister book addicts who somehow manage to get along (most of the time). They reside in Canada with their dog Becky, and one (slightly insane) fly-hunting cat named Fish. Oh. And their parents. They're important too.